President Donald Trump, who is spending Thanksgiving at Mar-a-Lago, addressed the shooting of two National Guard members in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, the administration continues to conduct negotiations to end the Russia-Ukraine war, with White House special envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner expected to travel to Russia and Army Secretary Dan Driscoll to talk to the Ukrainians.
USCIS stops processing immigration requests related to Afghan nationals
In a post on social media late Wednesday, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced the “processing of all immigration requests relating to Afghan nationals is stopped indefinitely pending further review of security and vetting protocols.”
The announcement came shortly after remarks by President Donald Trump regarding the shooting of two National Guard members in D.C. identifying the suspected shooter as an Afghan national who entered the U.S. in 2021.
Trump won’t invite South Africa to G20 and will suspend payments
Trump says that he will not invite South Africa to participate in next year’s G20 Summit hosted at his Doral golf course and stop all payments and subsidies to the country “effective immediately.”
“At the conclusion of the G20, South Africa refused to hand off the G20 Presidency to a Senior Representative from our U.S. Embassy, who attended the Closing Ceremony. Therefore, at my direction, South Africa will NOT be receiving an invitation to the 2026 G20, which will be hosted in the Great City of Miami, Florida next year,” Trump posted on his social media platform.
“We are going to stop all payments and subsidies to them, effective immediately.”
Trump refused to attend, or send a U.S. official to, the G20 summit this year in South Africa as he continues to amplify claims there have been targeted killings against white Afrikaners in the region.
